GLC: The Carnage Continues...
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"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is an episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents... broadcast on BBC2 in 1990. It parodied a Hollywood telling of the 1980s takeover of the Greater London Council by Ken Livingstone and the subsequent disbanding of that body by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, re-imagining the story as a Charles Bronson / Sylvester Stallone-style action movie. It is a spiritual successor to The Strike, which involved the creation of a Hollywood version of the 1984 miners' strike.[1]
- Robbie Coltrane – Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone
- Dawn French – Cher as Joan Ruddock
- Jennifer Saunders – Brigitte Nielsen as the Ice Maiden (a parody of Margaret Thatcher)
- Rik Mayall – The deposed Lord Mayor of the City of London
- Adrian Edmondson – Charles, Prince of Wales, Giles "Cricket Bat" Portland
- Peter Richardson – Lee Van Cleef as Tony Benn
- Leslie Phillips – Sir Horace Cutler
- Keith Allen – gay councillor / 1st Beefeater
- Steven O'Donnell (actor) – Alderman "Crazy" James Fairchild.
French, Saunders, Richardson and Edmondson also make cameo appearances as themselves.[2]
Plot
The story opens as a mock report from the opening of the new Charles Bronson movie GLC: The Carnage Continues, in which Bronson (played by Coltrane) discusses his new movie, in which he plays Ken Livingstone. From there, the movie itself begins.